Open AccessThe Connection of Cultural Capital with Success in Master’s Degree Programmes in Finnish Higher Education
Author(s) -
Satu Merenluoto
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
research on finnish society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2490-0958
pISSN - 1796-8739
DOI - 10.51815/fjsr.110688
Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , cultural capital , educational attainment , capital (architecture) , sociology , higher education , demographic economics , psychology , degree (music) , pedagogy , economic growth , social science , economics , geography , mathematics , physics , geometry , archaeology , acoustics
This article deals with the effects of cultural capital on attainment in higher education using Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital as a frame of reference. Attainment and success in higher education is perceived as a combination of multiple variables being the grade point average of the student’s higher education studies, the age at graduation, the time of graduation and the amount of credits studied. Participants of this survey study were 499 university graduates from six different disciplines from the University of Turku, Finland. Results indicate that cultural capital, as well as the variables comprising it, has an effect on educational attainment even though this effect is not a straightforward one